St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| AT Vienna. O., on the 1lth., Mary Hard
man, while boiling maple sugar at her
fathers camp, fell into the cauldron and
was scaldel to death
| PITTSBURGH continues excited over the
| great Panhandle robbery.
| JonN I. RAYMoND's remains arrived at
| New York on the 18th.
| A DISASTROUS fire occurred at st. Au
| gustine Fla. on the 18th, involving d loss
| of half u million dollars.
TIE new passport tax will become
| operative in Russia on April -. old style.
THE tin platers of Wales, who have been
| on a strike for six months for an increase
| in wages, have returned to work at the
| old rates.
| FIFTEEN persons are reported burned to
death by Kansas prairie fires.
| THE facts about the starvation of the
| people in Atascosa County, Tex, are APP
! palling.
THE impression seems to gather
| strength at Washin gton that the Presi-
dent will visit st. Louis in September.
THE British Parliament reassem bled on
the 18th after the Easter recess and re-
sumed consideration Of the Irish Grimes
act amendment.
| The Car in his conduct toward the
| Russian rivals, De Giers and katkof, is
| pursuing policy that appears very puz-
| cling to outsiders
THE old house of kirkpatrick, Kinscy q
Co., tanners, of Philadelphia, has sus-
pended. The firm recently made an as
| signmeEt to Thomas B. Gould Liabilities
| are reported to be S2J0,00O The assign
ment was surprise to the trade.
| JOSEPH BURCH, an Englishman, aged
sixty, living near Coldwater, Mercer
| (,oupty Str on q no
with hammer, on the 18th, killing her al
most instantly. He then went to the barn
and hanged himself.
! CONGRESSMAN RANDALL is rapidly re-
covering from the attack of rheumatic
govt with which he has suffered for sew
! eral days, and will be able to be out soon
| A NEGRO living near Grecnville, Ala.
| went off on the night of the 11th, leavin g
! five children, the oldest eleven years Of
age, locked up in the house. While he
was absent the house caught fire and the
| children were all burned to death.
| A VIGILANCE committee from Brown
| County, Neb., overlook two young
horse thieves near Sargent, Neb., on the
night of the 18th, and shot and killed one
of them, Joseph Arnold, and captured the
Other named James Bohan. One of the
Vigilantes was dangerously shot.
| JAMES BELL, upon whose confession and
testim ony David Hoffman, partner in the
| Missouri Pacific train wrecking, was con-
| victed of murder in the first degree, went
into court at Nebraska City, on the 18th,
and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He
was sentenced to ten years imprison
| ment.
| a CHASTITY discovery was made by
| Charles G. Conley of Chicago, while
hunting a mile east of Mud Lake. south of
| the city, on the 18th. A skeleton in broad
cloth clothes and Grand Army SLOUGH hat
was found in a quagmire, where the un-
| fortunate had been smothered to death or
! stuck in the mud and starved to death.
! RICHARD WEIGH, of st. Louis, aged
twenty-seven, was working in Brooks
! quarry at Kansas City, on the 18th, and
had gone beneath Il projecting ledge to re-
| move earth and stone, when the mass fell
upon him, breaking both legs and inf ct
| ing other injuries, from the effects of
| which he died il a few minut es. He had
| only been in the city a few weeks.
| DR.. MCGLYNN was snubbed at Cncin-
natl on the 18th by being ref used intro
duction on the floor of the Merchants E.
| change. He lectured to two thous and
| people at night at Music Hall.
| ADoLPH CARoN, Minister Of Canadian
| Militia, says he hopes the good sense Of
the American people will prevent the ell
| forcement of the Retaliation law passed
| by Congress-"
| DR.. J. w. HOFFMAN of the American
| Bureau of Ethnoogy has been named by
| the King of Portugal chevaler of the
| order of st. James, one Of the most
| ancient orders Of Christendom
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has definitely ac-
| copied an invitation to attend the Pied
mont (Gl.) fair, which will be held in
Atlanta during the first two weeks of
October. Great preparations are in con-
| temptation for his reception.
| The village of Farnham, Va, was nearly
destroyed by fire on the 18Th.
A DISCHARGED cmploye poisoned Count
Andrassy's fine stable of horses at
Vienna, and five of the animals died.
| The holders war has reached Pitts
burgh, and strike throughout the entire
| country is anticipated.
IRISH emigrants in unusually large
| numbers are reported sailing from
Queenstown.
L. j. LABOR, judge of the Des Moines,
Qa.) police court, is $4,000 short in his &C
counts and has gone to Canada
THE steamer Victoria is reported lost off
the coast of France and a dozen passen-
gers drowned.
JOHN T. RAYMoND's funeral occurred on
the 18th at the ''Little Church Around the
Corner,' New York City.
A GANG of 'green goods" gentry were
captured in New York on the 18th, and
big lot of plumber was seized
A COLLISION of trains on the Cincinnati
& Muskingum Valley railroad on the 18th
resulted in the injury of nearly dozen
persons.
Mr.. DE LEON, secretary of the Washing
ton National drill, says only three COM
panies have SO far declined to take part
on account of the colored troops.
TIE Philadelphia Bulletin calls Secre-
tary Fairchild's attention to the fact that
there is large amount of fraudulent i'm
portation of iron and steel going on.
THE Berlin Post criticises France severe
ly for conducting imposing military ma
neuvers in c.ose proximity to the German
frontier.
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